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Thank You AKwolverine. So it was made some time from Dec 1996-1997 and its Pre 64 as the manual stated or it was post 63? Does it worth to keep it un-fires? What does it worth in today market?. Thanks again. It is NOT a pre64. It has the "like pre64" CRF action. You need to get pre64 out of your head. That description does not apply here. That said, you have a quite desirable rifle on your hands.
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There is no official; the records don’t exist and the current Winchester won’t know prior to 2008.
The “web estimated” chart may have been from poster Winchester70; it floats around here and is pretty close.
This one I’ll go 95% confidence on; the LH classic stainless was made and cataloged one year only (1997) and those start around G177xxx. Could this (G180xxx) have been made Dec ‘96 - perhaps, and that’s my wiggle. AK is spot-on per usual. I'd place the rifle made in 1997. You used to be able to call BACO and, while they can't tell you the exact mfg date, they can tell you when the rifle shipped from the factory. Not sure if they will still answer that question as I haven't asked in a number of years. I have two Classic Stainless FWT's (308 and 270), both G156XXX serial no's. I called BACO and the lady said they shipped from the New Haven factory in October of 1996.
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Well, thanks for the kind words, Brad, but in this case, yes – and no.
I have been told by multiple sources that the records didn’t exist, and this comes from people who I trusted. In this case, I – and they – were flat ass wrong and you are 100% correct. I took the liberty to call Winchester Customer Service on this, the OP’s rifle, and the gentleman was able to search it by computer - and tell me that it left the factory on January 30, 1997.
At some point, I’ll call on some of mine that I’ve owned in the past and we can start a thread - list of partial serial numbers and dates that they shipped so that we can truly get an exact handle on this question that comes up all of the time. Pretty darn cool that they do still have the shipping records!!!
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Well, thanks for the kind words, Brad, but in this case, yes – and no.
I have been told by multiple sources that the records didn’t exist, and this comes from people who I trusted. In this case, I – and they – were flat ass wrong and you are 100% correct. I took the liberty to call Winchester Customer Service on this, the OP’s rifle, and the gentleman was able to search it by computer - and tell me that it left the factory on January 30, 1997.
At some point, I’ll call on some of mine that I’ve owned in the past and we can start a thread - list of partial serial numbers and dates that they shipped so that we can truly get an exact handle on this question that comes up all of the time. Pretty darn cool that they do still have the shipping records!!! Thanks Brad and AKwolverine for going extra miles on it. Now I know for sure when it made and its pretty much of what I've been assumed for a while.
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Glad to help out guys 
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